To shorten your days until the release of our next gigantic CINEMATIC SERIES library CINEMATIC DARKNESS, we’re allowing you a peek BEHIND THE SCENES: see some of the synthies and outboard gear we used to create our new SFX library.
CINEMATIC DARKNESS has been co-produced with sound designer Sebastian Johnson who left his footprints in the world of sound design starting in the 90s with the first commercial library for the Waldorf Microwave and sound design for Ensoniq, Clavia, DSI, and recently for more than 40 blockbuster trailers in the last 4 years such as Gravity, World War Z, Godzilla, Maleficient, The Hobbit, Transcendence, The Dark Knight Rises, Prometheus, Pacific Rim, Resident Evil 5, Star Trek & much more!
Since we’re always trying to excel our own quality standards, this has not only been a challenging but also a rather fun task. During the production process, we dug deep into the technical archives as we wanted to create a sound that comes as creepy and naturally dark as possible. The only logical consequence was to not only stick to modern devices, but to take a step back in time, refocus and turn our ears to tools you’d generally call outdated. Or does 1969 or 1984 sound up-to-date to you? 😉 As a lucky consequence, our tool list includes rare treasures such as the Ampex AG-440 analog tape recorder from 1969, the NED Synclavier, Yamaha CS-60, Rhodes Chroma, E-Mu Emulator II, – just to mention a few of them. On the side of compressors, filters and fx, we used the Lexicon 224 Reverb, Publison Infernal Machine 90, Rockruepel Comp 1 which was limited to 50 pcs worldwide, Eventide H8000FW and many more to design the unique sound we had in mind.
We think the outcome proves it was well worth the time travel: CINEMATIC DARKNESS bursts with sound treasures that come with a mind-blowing vintage signature and a murky character that just creeps under your skin. Take a walk through our “garage” and see what kind of professional vintage and modern tools we used to form our unique and glorious CINEMATIC DARKNESS sound:
CINEMATIC DARKNESS – GEAR (EXCERPT – sorted by release year)
Ampex AG-440 • Analog Tape Recorder
Yamaha CS-60 • Synthesizer
Rhodes Chroma • Synthesizer
Publison Infernal Machine 90 • Multi FX Processor
NED Synclavier • Synthesizer
E-MU Emulator II+ • Synthesizer
Sequential Prophet VS • Synthesizer
Oberheim Matrix-1000 • Synthesizer
Roland D-550 • Synthesizer
Waldorf Microwave • Synthesizer
Roland JD-990 • Synthesizer
Thermionic Culture – The Culture Vulture • Distortion / Enhancer
JoMox SunSyn • Synthesizer
Eventide H8000FW • Multi FX Processor
Photo by Nalzatron / CC BY
Metasonix TM-6 • Tube Multimode Filter
Schippmann Ebbe & Flut • Filterbank
Elysia Mpressor • Compressor
Roland V-Synth GT • Synthesizer
Elysia Museq • Analog EQ
Studio Electronics ATC-Xi • Synthesizer
BAE 1023 • Preamp/EQ
DSI Mopho • Synthesizer
Kemper Profiling Amp
Rockruepel Comp One • Compressor
Teenage Engineering OP1 • Synthesizer
DSI Prophet 12 • Synthesizer
Vertigo VSP-2 • Preamp
Kush Tweaker • Compressor
VIDEO TEASER
ALL SOUNDS IN THIS VIDEO ARE FROM THE CINEMATIC DARKNESS SFX LIBRARY
except the music 😉
CINEMATIC DARKNESS will be released in late March. Stay tuned for some audio demos…
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